Re: nakamichi and next meeting

[TMatsumu@example.com]

Craig,
  Your friend's PC system sounds like a good deal.  Do you know what 
motherboard he is using?  Does he have options to pay a little more Y and 
get SCSI on it?

BTW, reason I was never excited about those Nak 7 CD changers is that their 
access speed is like 450ms or something dreadfully slow, we use Pioneers 
here all the time with SCSI, and of course, it works fast and perfect.

If you're really on a budget, you might want to just get a stack of 
IDE/ATAPI yasui 1x drives and ask Jim how to map them to drive letters.  I 
know that no standards exist to do that, so black magic will definitely be 
involved. ;)

Ted

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Original Text
>From owner-tlug@example.com, on 1/6/96 9:13 AM:
On Fri, 5 Jan 1996 cybernet@example.com wrote:

> Last week I have seen it at 12000 yen in T-Zone subsiduary near 
gas-station in 
> Akihabara (if you are going from Laox to Laser 5). On mine opinion it is 
more 
> convinient to use just 2 cheap IDE CD-ROMs like NEC 260. I do. In black 
list 
> is Vertex SCSI, very cheap, but God forbides.

The reason I wanted to get the Nakamichi was that I could load all
the InfoMagic disks without having to change the CD caddy.  On my desk
at home I have just the monitor and keyboard.  I place the two
main Linux units under my desk with the modems and a whole bunch 
of ugly cables.  

A friend of mine came over yesterday to talk to me about ideas for
promoting his Zen computer line.  His company's name is Hakko.
I have the info in the office but from memory:

	133 mhz Pentium
	840 meg EIDE
	8 megs RAM
	15" MAG DX monitor
	English keyboard
	some graphics board with 2 meg VRAM
	2 16550 UART serial port, parallel, normal stuff

	180,000 yen without OS
	200,000 yen with Win '95-J

Evidently, there is no user's manual at the moment, but that
should be okay for Linux people.  He said that he will be
selling 166 mhz units in March or April.  His office is in
Yokohama.  I'll post more info when I get into the office.

Regards,
Craig


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